Making Non-Sense

Posted by Colin Harvey Sep 6, 2009

I've been fairly remiss with my blogging since Kate's birthday, and sending Damage Time into Angry Robot.

Part of that is because I worked two full days --on Wednesday and Friday, and followed that with drinks after work on Friday. On top of that we've had guests since Thursday, so it's been incredibly difficult to get any quality time at the keyboard. What little time I've had left after answering correspondence has been spent reading F&SF for the next review. I've not posted any reviews for a week, and that is partly adding to the boiling stew of what passes for thought at the moment. I hate being behind schedule.

I think part of the reason I'm finding it so hard to concentrate is because I've been focused on the novel for so long that without it I'm anchorless. But I'm not yet ready to start on the next one.

It's also partly because I'm supposed to be on holiday for heaven's sake, and my subconscious is saying no! You should be outside! Or doing something trivial and pointless (like this blog...)

And the last part is because I was given some news on Friday of a personal nature, so I can't say much about it, except that two days on I'm still trying to assimilate it, and it's made me question my own judgement in a way that's not entirely comfortable.

I'm sure that given a another couple of days I'll be back to normal, but in the meantime, don't be too surprised if the next blogs and reviews make even less sense than they normally do...